Zeitvogel J Nos Quotes & Sayings

There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here. — Aldous Huxley

If you're trying to serve someone in need and it doesn't hurt a little, you're doing something wrong. — Jeff Goins

Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor, has put his signature first on all the articles against Wolsey. They say one strange allegation has been added at his behest. The cardinal is accused of whispering in the king's ear and breathing into his face; since the cardinal has the French pox, he intended to infect our monarch. When he hears this he thinks, imagine living inside the Lord Chancellor's head. Imagine writing down such a charge and taking it to the printer, and circulating it through the court and through the realm, putting it out there to where people will believe anything; putting it out there, to the shepherds on the hills, to Tyndale's plowboy, to the beggar on the roads and the patient beast in its byre or stall; out there to the bitter winter winds, and to the weak early sun, and the snowdrops in the London gardens. — Hilary Mantel

Humans best survive when they are given a purpose; a common enemy to defeat, revenge to wreak or a dream to cling to. — Bryce Courtenay

Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure swift penalty along with it. there was purification in punishment — Oscar Wilde

Here stand my books, line upon line
They reach the roof, and row by row,
They speak of faded tastes of mine,
And things I did, but do not, know. — Andrew Lang

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats. — Edith Wharton

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way. — Lena Dunham

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me. — Dionne Warwick

To be sensitively aware of thought, of feeling, of the world about you, of your office and of nature, is to explode from moment to moment in affection. Without affection, every action becomes burdensome and mechanical and leads to decay. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Theory of Sexual Understanding is mine. I created it. It works between a man and a woman. It's this: Everything's up to her. — Jonathan Gash